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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is RDA of protein?






2. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






3. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






4. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






5. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






6. Sources of fats






7. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






8. How many calories/gram is protein?






9. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






10. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






11. Where can you get more vitamin D?






12. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






13. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






14. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






15. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






16. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






17. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






18. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






19. What is the function of vitamin E?






20. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






21. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






22. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






23. What function is vitamin A?






24. What is normal BMI?






25. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






26. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






27. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






28. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






29. When does BMR increase?






30. What type of people need extra protein?






31. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






32. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






33. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






34. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






35. What are healthy sources of fats?






36. What foods have high quality protein?






37. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






38. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






39. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






40. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






41. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






42. When does BMR decrease?






43. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






44. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






45. Fats can lead to some medical problems






46. Name six sources of grains






47. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






48. What does DASH stand for?






49. What is the function of vitamin C?






50. What orange vegetables are good to eat?